Max/MSP (or Pure Data) ended up being a good middle ground for me. With that said, it's easy to get lost in the coding and forget to make music, if that is the ultimate goal. I also found that more complex patches trend towards approximating features of a DAW, at which point the downsides (single-core, no timeline) make the whole undertaking a bit questionable.
I spent about a month developing a custom UI and comprehensive control environment for my modular only to immediately abandon it and return to Ableton.
Interesting, I'd be curious to read a technical analysis of the differences. DIN provides by far the tightest sync we've ever seen in hardware, so I question the idea that lag and latency are a defining feature of the protocol.
If corrugated metal were not associated with shacks, would it be so concerning? Most materials can look good with the right execution. The difference comes from form and detailing.
"Classical" architecture is (thankfully) dead and will never return. It's too costly and we lack the skilled labour force required. For those that nonetheless demand it, we get cheap imitations of classical details that look worse than a simpler but well-considered alternative.
There have been some promising advances in automated machine carving of stone, but it's still expensive. It has a bright future as part of a hybrid aesthetic enabled by contemporary technology. We need to look forward and not back.
It's not going away, but I remain hopeful it will be refined. macOS is the real casualty this upgrade cycle—iOS has problems but isn't fundamentally broken.
Your colleague is wrong and this is a tired debate, but neither are easy.
Engineering deals mostly with objective outcomes. Space shuttle designers have a clear goal and measurable performance metrics. The problems are extremely hard but the design constraints permit a more focused development process.
Architecture is technical but mostly subjective, and deals with a host of multi-disciplinary and social concerns. It's quite open-ended and difficult to settle on an optimal approach. Extreme budget limitations, building code, zoning restrictions, public consultation, and the idiosyncrasies of personal taste complicate this process further. Full-size prototyping is also less common and it's almost impossible to truly test the outcome of a design before actually constructing something.
Building a house and building a perfect house are drastically different accomplishments. A lot of people will even hate the perfect house – there's no winning!
I have a great deal of respect for engineers and (competent) architects. The latter are rare.
Failed classes are not specific enough; it could simply be an IQ-related or something else entirely. Many people with ADHD-related symptoms are able to pass courses, especially pre-college, and sometimes with perfect grades. Their personal life or ability to function outside of an academic structure may tell a different story.
Adults don't need "legitimate" reasons, especially ones as nebulous as the strawmen listed above. Amphetamines have therapeutic potential for a range of conditions and are fairly benign if used responsibly and ideally temporarily. It's ridiculous that people have to jump through hoops (often quite expensive) or feign a specific illness for access to a better coffee substitute. With that said, 30mg+ dosages and the dominant prescription regimen (every day, no breaks, or you risk being cut off) are probably excessive for most individuals without extreme impairment.
I don't disagree with limiting its administration to children, but this should be handled by professionals on a case-by-case basis.
I disagree. You need a legitimate reason if you are going to get it from a physician or psychiatrist. If you believe the drug should be available to all adults, then this I also agree with. I'd rather no one make up false symptoms, but a psychiatrist/physician needs to assess on honest criteria. If your justification is "because I believe it will work for me", then just go buy it. Unfortunately, our rules are different. It's not a strawman to suggest that many people just want it because they see the pay-off from certain careers as worth it, this is not good enough clinically to prescribe someone this stuff. Just wanting it is not enough in the paradigm that exists (which is that of therapeutic benefit for an illness).
Another example of this is Ozempic. It's pretty much being used as a vanity drug, but a doctor's criteria should always be related to an illness and real symptoms. These ADHD drugs are very much study drugs used in schools and knowledge professions. So, we can keep bullshitting about it, but if you at least admit to that then I'll say go ahead and just sell that shit in dispensaries like weed - no questions asked.
The United States needs to establish a crypto reserve to prepare for a permanent Martian settlement with an independent economy 100 years from now? It's difficult to think of something less relevant to the well-being of the American public.
You can really tell it's just another pump-n-dump scheme because no reputable science enjoyer would read/write a novel about this in sci-fi except to describe a dystopia or satire.
Despite minor grievances (primarily UI related, and likely inconsequential to others), I also prefer Sequoia over previous iterations. The future of mac/iOS is visible on the horizon and I expect it to roll out in a steady series of well-considered upgrades.
I was a die-hard Mojave holdout until two months ago; if anything, preferring Snow Leopard or iOS 6 or whatever (review screenshots) seems to be the more contrarian take when considering contemporary workflows, device interoperability, and aesthetic cohesiveness. It's like pining for a Powerbook G4 or iMac G3 – nostalgic curiosities, but personally, I'm glad we've moved on.
Interop and workflows could be added without rehashing and “aesthetics”. Skeuo and metal surfaces were peak designs, please don’t even start me with this “flat” nonsense again. It’s a complete crap proven countless times by non-computer people (eldery) trying to interact with it and fail.
I spent about a month developing a custom UI and comprehensive control environment for my modular only to immediately abandon it and return to Ableton.
Max for Live, on the other hand...